department of hispanic languages and literature
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We would like to celebrate your graduation and achievements in Hispanic Languages and Literature with this booklet crafted at home for you and your families.
We are deeply grateful for all of your work and participation in our academic projects and honored to have shared classrooms, hallways, and screens with you all these years.
CONGRATULATIONSCLASS OF 2020 !!
¡ FELICITACIONES ! The Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature Faculty and Staff
Prof. Daniela FleslerDepartment Chair
Dear students and families:
Congratulations! It is our deep honor to celebrate with you, through this modified format, the impressive achievement of your graduation. At the department of Hispanic Languages and Literature we pride ourselves in getting to know our students, fostering community, diversity and cultural awareness. Thank you for allowing us to share your journey these last few years. We wish you every success and happiness in the next stage of your lives, and very much hope you will stay in touch. We could not be prouder of you!
Dear students and families:
This spring semester of 2020 we all had to adapt to different environments and face unseen scenarios in a time that should have been full of joy and social warmness. Your endurance and all your achievements are a wonderful lesson for all of us. I admire your braveness, celebrate your accomplishments, and wish you all the best in your professional careers and personal life. You are now leading a new path into a better world.
¡Felicitaciones! Prof. Paul FirbasDirector of UndergraduateStudies
We are proud to present our2019-2020 university and departmental honors and awards for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
Let us start our celebration bypresenting our undergraduatestudents who have beendistinguished with honors basedon their stellar grade pointaverage (GPA) and theirexceptional academic writing in Spanish.
HONORS AND AWARDS
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS
Magna Cum Laude (GPA 3.7+):
Summa Cum Laude (GPA 3.85+):
Terrie Hsun
Ian Lesnick
UNDERGRADUATE DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
UNDERGRADUATE BEST ESSAY AWARD
Anita Rescia
“La cultura inextricable de la lengua: una investigación a través de las expresiones idiomáticas”
Prof. Aurélie VialetteDirector of Graduate Studies
¡Felicidades estudiantes graduados de 2020!Getting a graduate degree, MA or PhD, implies a road full of emotions. Joy. Frustrations. Accomplishments. Fears. Doubts. Pleasure. You’ve spent years taking classes, researching and writing and have now in your possession an MA or PhD thesis. We are so proud of you.You are now MAs and PhDs, and some of you will teach and advise students, from which you will learn all the time: in the classroom, during office hours, at workshops and coffee breaks. And this is the most beautiful aspect of this profession.Welcome to the world of teachers and scholars!
Let us continue our celebration by presenting our graduate students, teaching assistants, and faculty in Hispanic Languages and Literature who are the recipients of prestigious awards, fellowships, and scholarships.
GRADUATE AND FACULTY AWARDS
DEPARTMENTAL GRADUATE AWARDS
BEST GRADUATE ESSAY AWARD
Mario Henao
“De lo peor siempre viene lo mejor: nuevas formas de mirar en Yo, la peor de todas de María Luisa Bemberg”
María Medín Doce
“La alteración del espacio: encuentros con la otredad en Inferno verde de Alberto Rangel”
NON DEPARTMENTAL GRADUATE AWARDS
HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AT STONY BROOK FELLOWSHIPCornell University Summer School of Criticism and Theory
Isabel Murcia Estrada
PUBLIC HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP FROM THE NEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES 2020-2021
Moisés Hassan Bendahan
NON DEPARTMENTAL GRADUATE AWARDS
TURNER DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Régulo Silva
PRESIDENT’S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING BY A GRADUATE STUDENT
Sara Martínez Navarro
NON DEPARTMENTAL GRADUATE AWARDS
SUMMER 2020 AHLSS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Isabel Murcia Estrada
Moisés Hassan Bendahan
SUMMER 2020 AHLSS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
FACULTY AWARDS
FUNDACIÓN FRANCISCO AYALA SCHOLARSHIP (SPAIN)
Lena Burgos-Lafuente for the project “El efecto Ayala: política, estética y educación superior en el Puerto Rico de los años 50”
HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AT STONY BROOK FACULTY FELLOWSHIP 2020-2021
Paul Firbas for the book project “News Production and Networks in Colonial Lima (1620-1720): The Contreras Family Print Shop”
FACULTY AWARDS
2019-20 WILBUR MARVIN SCHOLAR OF THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lena Burgos-Lafuente for her project “A la izquierda de la izquierda: Cosmopolitan Communisms in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Caribbean (1920-1959)”
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION 2020 BEST BOOK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AWARD
Joseph Pierce for his book Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910
Ian Lesnick
Forever grateful for the support and love from my family
Quiero agradecer a todas las personas del departamento de Hispanic Languages & Literature: los profesores y los estudiantes. Todos me han dado tantas oportunidades de aprender y crecer. No tengo una cantidad de palabras suficiente para expresar mi gratitud por todo que me han ofrecido. Sé que durante toda mi carrera como profesor usaré todas las historias, lecciones, y conversaciones de nuestras clases para seguir desarrollando a mis estudiantes. ¡Muchísimas gracias y felicidades a todos!
Department of Hispanic Languagesand Literature
BS in Biology and Major in SPANISH
Fátima Abarca Soriano
FALL 2019
My first ever day of school!
Emma Zoubek
Thank you so much to all of the faculty in this department. You created a community for me and my classmates at Stony Brook. I always felt that I could turn to any of my professors for help and advice! Through these classes I grew both as a student and a person. I especially want to thank the department for their encouragement and support with the formation of the Spanish Language Club. I feel very privileged to have been a student in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook.
Pauline Goerges
The beach takes my heart to a place of serenity and peace
As a Spanish student at SBU, I had the opportunity to study abroad in Madrid for one semester. I attended UC3M, got to explore Madrid, and made some amazing new friends with whom I am still in contact with. It was truly an unforgettable experience and the memories I made there will always be connect to my time at SBU.
Kenneth Meserole
My closest friends in the Class of 2019
Hosting the Salsa Night for the new Spanish Language Club was an unforgettable experience. Although I am a terrible dancer, my friends and I were helping to share Hispanic culture and forming something new for future students to be a part of; that was so exciting and special to me.
Suzanne Tawch
In loving memory of SeñoraAigen, my high school Spanish teacher. Thank you for always encouraging my passion for Spanish. I will always cherish our class trip to Spain.
CLASS OF 2020
MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING SPANISH 7-12
Lindsay McCoyDepartment of Hispanic
Languages and Literature
Lindsay McCoy
Her adventurous spirit always guiding her, Lindsay aspires to utilize her Masters Degree to spark her students to discover the unwavering beauty of the world through the avenue of speaking a foreign language!
Lindsay’s longtime hope has been that, through her instruction, she could catch the zeal that most students have on their very first day of Spanish class and enable them to hold onto it for the rest of their lives - to find joy in learning material that can be so vividly brought to life both inside and outside the classroom. As the recipient of a Masters in Teaching from Stony Brook University, Lindsay has no doubt in her mind that she is equipped to accomplish this feat and change the lives and perspectives of her students in creative and meaningful ways!
CLASS OF 2020
MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING SPANISH 7-12
Austin PortenteDepartment of Hispanic
Languages and Literature
Austin Portente
En la foto, estoy con mi mamá. Además de ser una persona cariñosa, mi mamá me ha inspirado mucho en mis estudios de lenguas extranjeras porque era profesora de francés y español como yo
Being a student in Stony Brook's MAT program has been an extremely rewarding and fulfilling experience. Although I was nervous about starting a new journey at the graduate level, I must say that the memories that I have made with my fellow classmates and the faculty will continue to live on in my mind. I would like to specifically thank all of the professors with whom I established meaningful relationships (from Hispanic Languages and Literature & the Teacher Education Programs) because they truly made each commute to Stony Brook–after a long day of work–worth it!
CLASS OF 2020
MASTER OF ARTS IN TEACHING SPANISH 7-12
Matthew ToomanDepartment of Hispanic
Languages and Literature
Matthew Tooman
At the Great Wall of China 2002, myself (left) and my friend, Dave. Looking ahead to all of life's challenges and successes
My best memory started at the beginning of my journey at Stony Brook, meeting Professor Sarah Jourdain and being accepted into the Masters of Teaching program. Becoming a teacher has been one of the best experiences in my life!
CLASS OF 2020
MASTER OF ARTSHispanic Languages and
Literature
Department of HispanicLanguages and Literature Gisele Blain De Dios
Gisele Blain De Dios
Hispanic Film Festival
Their are plenty of good memories! Organizing The Hispanic Film Festivals are at the tops, but the best include the numerous times my fellow classmates got together around my table, with good food, drinks and long wonderful conversations. The relationships built during my time at Stony Brook are invaluable and always cherished!
CLASS OF 2020
MASTER OF ARTSHispanic Languages and
Literature
Department of HispanicLanguages and Literature Claretha Richardson
The sky is the limit to what I can have
Claretha Y Richardson
Obrigado por me defender.Gracias porayudarme durantela enfermedad. Thank you most of all for encouraging me and for not letting me quit!
Dissertation
El mirar barroco. Las supervivencias del barroco y el trastorno de la
modernidad en el Perú contemporáneo
Spring, 2020
Advisor:Prof. Adrián Pérez-Melgosa.
José Chueca
Ph.D. in
Hispanic Languages and Literature
Esther and I. This doctorate is dedicated to her
The best parts of my experience as a graduate student are the most challenging ones: understanding remarkably complicated things with the help of wonderful fellows and professors and teaching immensely beautiful things to the marvelous students of Stony Brook University. Those experiences will travel with me forever.
José Chueca
Dissertation
Más allá de las violencias machistas: las acciones feministas de Beth Moysés y Berna Reale
Fall, 2019
Advisors: Prof. Lena Burgos-Lafuente
Prof. Aurélie Vialette
Agustina Bullrich
Ph.D. in
Hispanic Languages and Literature
Dissertation
Narrativas inhumanas: capitalismo extractivo, delirios animistas y representación textual en José Eustasio Rivera, José María Arguedas y
Juan Cárdenas
Fall, 2019
Advisors:Prof. Paul Firbas
Prof. Javier Uriarte
Gabriel Rudas Burgos
Ph.D. in
Hispanic Languages and Literature
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